The submission deadline is close at hand. Get your film in shape with these last-minute tips and free filmmaking resources.

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re in crunch-mode: The film submission deadlines is October 23rd at the stroke of midnight.

First, take a deep breath. You’ve gotten this far, and you’re almost finished—you can do this! Visualize your finished film on the big screen, and as the credits roll, a delighted audience clapping in appreciation.

How will we get to that moment? Let’s (1) focus on your editing technique and speeding it up. Next, let’s (2) grab some awesome sound effects from free-to-use SFX libraries that’ll juice up your film before we (3) run through a checklist to get your film in shape for festival submission.

After that, we’ll run through the process of submitting a film via FilmFreeWay. And we’re done!